Crowdsourcing Applications and Platforms: A Data Management Perspective

Summary: Tutorial frames crowdsourcing as a data-management primitive for on-demand human computation in tasks from entity resolution to contextual analytics. It synthesizes platform evolution and core challenges in quality, latency, scheduling, cost, privacy, and social concerns. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID: 10431
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2011
Pagerank: 6.259258e-05
Overall Rank: 5,343 | 63.35%
DOI: 10.14778/3402755.3402809

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Authors

1. AnHai Doan (University of Wisconsin; WalmartLabs)
2. Michael J. Franklin (University of California Berkeley)
3. Donald Kossmann (ETH Zurich)
4. Tim Kraska (University of California Berkeley)

BibTeX Citation

@article{doan_vldb11,
        title = {{Crowdsourcing Applications and Platforms: A Data Management Perspective}},
        author = {Doan, AnHai and Franklin, Michael J. and Kossmann, Donald and Kraska, Tim},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '11},
        volume = {4},
        number = {12},
        pages = {1508--1513},
        doi = {10.14778/3402755.3402809},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3402755.3402809},
        year = {2011}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 4 of 4 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
2,789	Crowd Mining	2013	SIGMOD	8.1203892e-05
4,821	Crowdsourced Top-k Queries by Confidence-Aware Pairwise Judgments	2017	SIGMOD	6.4935866e-05
7,357	Crowdsourced Data Management: Overview and Challenges	2017	SIGMOD	5.6346837e-05
12,013	A Confidence-Aware Top-k Query Processing Toolkit on Crowdsourcing	2017	VLDB	5.093636e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 9 of 9 cited papers.

Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
90	CrowdDB: Answering Queries with Crowdsourcing	2011	SIGMOD	0.00034951786
250	Answering Queries using Humans, Algorithms and Databases	2011	CIDR	0.00023261164
251	Crowdsourced Databases: Query Processing with People	2011	CIDR	0.00023261113
767	Human-Assisted Graph Search: It’s Okay to Ask Questions	2011	VLDB	0.00014208622
1,098	Google Fusion Tables: Web-Centered Data Management and Collaboration	2010	SIGMOD	0.00012179025
1,162	Principles of Dataspace Systems	2006	PODS	0.00011866011
3,843	Efficiently Incorporating User Feedback into Information Extraction and Integration Programs	2009	SIGMOD	7.0791732e-05
4,033	Computational Journalism: A Call to Arms to Database Researchers	2011	CIDR	6.9449851e-05
6,330	User Feedback as a First Class Citizen in Information Integration Systems	2011	CIDR	5.9109104e-05

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